After selecting suppliers based on the services they provide, the Service Provider needs to send the Quote Request to the suppliers.
Scenarios
On the Send Quote Request for part page, a Scenarios box will show all the selected suppliers and the services they provide:
What is a Scenario?
A scenario is a combination of two or more suppliers providing different services. A scenario allows you to combine different suppliers services for comparison purposes. For example, if you had three potential delivery suppliers and four potential print suppliers, you could combine each delivery supplier with each print supplier, resulting in 12 different scenarios:
| Print 1 | Print 2 | Print 3 | Print 4 | |
| Delivery 1 | Scenario 1 | Scenario 2 | Scenario 3 | Scenario 4 |
| Delivery 2 | Scenario 5 | Scenario 6 | Scenario 7 | Scenario 8 |
| Delivery 3 | Scenario 9 | Scenario 10 | Scenario 11 | Scenario 12 |
Creating a Scenario
A scenario is created automatically when you select two or more suppliers that provide the same service. For example:
- From the main menu, go to Projects > All Projects.
- Filter projects on Status: New
- Find the project you want and click its Select Suppliers button.
- In the Select Suppliers and Services section, click the Services button.
- Select the services you want, for example:
If a Supplier provides a service it will display with selectable checkboxes in the Supplier list.
- Click Next
The different scenarios will display.
- You then complete the Quote Details and Email Options as for a standard Quote Request.
See Service Provider raises Quote Request for Customer.
Quote Details
A Quote Details box lists all the selected services. 
For each service:
- Select a date and time you want the the Supplier to Quote by.
- Select a date and time you want the the Supplier to Deliver by.
- Select where you want the products delivered.
This could be to the Customer, a warehousing facility or another supplier who will process the product.
Email Options
A box will display the email options for each Supplier:
Click the PDF icon to open a PDF version of the email that can be saved.
Click the email icon to edit the RFQ email before sending.
Select the Send Email checkbox to ensure the email is sent (it is checked by default).
Sending Quote Request Email
The Send email checkbox is selected by default. If it is unchecked the Quote Request will not be sent to the Supplier, but a draft of the Quote Request will be saved on the system. You might want to do this if you know you need to wait to add more information before sending the Request. To send the saved Quote Request:
- From the main menu bar, select Projects > All Projects.
- Find and open the project.
- Select the Sourcing tab, then click Resend Quote Request.
Editing an RFQ Email
Clicking the email icon opens an editable email box:
Simple boilerplate email text is provided, but this can be replaced or modified as required.
A predefined set of text variables, such as Quote Ref and Supplier Name, are provided and can be dragged and dropped into the email as required. These variables are automatically populated when the corresponding data is entered into the system as part of the normal Administration workflow.
Manipulating Email Text Variables
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